Just to feed my curiosity I would like to create a list of RE plot holes that I can hold on to for future reference. Everyone else is entitled to the list too, don't think this is just for me.

I would like to exclude cannon games, movies, and RE:Revelations as much as possible, but if they have pieces, except for the movies, that help with the main story by all means add them. Also, be as picky as possible.

Here is a list all of all the plot holes I know of:

What happened to Billy after RE0?

What happened to Rebecca after REmake?

What happened to Commander Nikolai Ginovaef after RE3?

What happened to Barry after RE3? (excluding RE5 mercenaries)

What happened to Sherry Birkin after RE2?

Are there any samples of the virus left?

Is Hunk still around?

Years from 1998 to 2004, and years from 2004 to 2006 and later (might have the years wrong)?

An example of one would be finding Brad as a zombie in Resident Evil 2, while he's clearly alive at the beginning of Resident Evil 3. Another would be the whole screwy Zero/RE1 timeline. In the first game, Alpha team went out in search of Bravo team shortly after they lost contact. In Zero, Rebecca and Billy are overlooking the Spencer Estate at dawn, when Alpha team arrived at dusk. A day apparently passed by in Zero, but not in the original Resident Evil. These are examples of plot holes... lol

I would say, the canon version of RE3 is, that he is killed by Nemesis (before Jill has to fight Nemesis). Or am i wrong?

The canon ending is that Nicholai gets away.

So, as for some actual plotholes, like the ones zombie mentioned...

Why were some Ganado trying to kill Ashley when she was the whole point of Saddler's plan?

Why do they infect Leon and then try to kill him right after?

Why do they lead Leon to the only place known to man where a machine that will kill the parasite exists?

Why is it that after Ashley is captured in the castle for the first time (by the trap), the Ganado only show up to reclaim her when Leon shows up? Do they not know the layout of their own place?

Why tell Leon and Ashley your plan before even the middle of the game, when all it does is screw it up?

Considering how long they had Ashley for, why didn't they infect her sooner? Assuming they did, why did they wait so long to perform the "ritual"? What the hell was the ritual, anyway? We saw with Leon that the parasite presents itself pretty damn quickly. He was already losing control, and he was even taking pills to prevent it.

Why is it that Saddler needed his parasitic soundwave staff to control the Ganado, but Salazar and seemingly Mendez could give orders without them?

Why was Krauser able to control his mutation to his arm? In addition, assuming it was Las Plagas he was infected with, why did it give him super speed and jumping ability when it didn't do that to anyone else? If it was a virus...well that doesn't make much sense, either. What the hell virus was it?

Why did they leave papers detailing their plans so Leon could find them right after they come up with them?

I also wish there were more explanations for the creatures. I mean, why in the world did a few people turn into El Gigante? What the **** was Verdugo and the other one? Obviously some of the things were experiments, but what were they trying to do and why were the results what they were?

Why did they send Leon, a single agent, in to retrieve or look for Ashley...in a rural area of Spain, no less, when Leon can't even speak Spanish? Before you say they sent in those two Spanish cops...you mean the ones who just sat in the car, offering no help, while Leon went inside the cabin? Okay.

I know these are all from RE4, but it obviously has the most plotholes, so might as well get them out of the way.

Plot holes, dead ends. How ever the words play out. Just post things that are missing from the Resident Evil games. I used the wrong terminology, my bad, but some one was able to put this thread in the right direction.

Why was Krauser able to control his mutation to his arm? In addition, assuming it was Las Plagas he was infected with, why did it give him super speed and jumping ability when it didn't do that to anyone else? If it was a virus...well that doesn't make much sense, either. What the hell virus was it?.

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I didn't play Darkside Chronicles, but wasn't it T-Veronica from Operation Javier?

I didn't play Darkside Chronicles, but wasn't it T-Veronica from Operation Javier?

Jesus Christ, duh. I played DSC and specifically that chapter a lot. I even made a thread about that when I saw it, now that you mention it. With Alexia, Manuela, and Krauser, now I remember thinking that T-Veronica was the best virus.

An example of one would be finding Brad as a zombie in Resident Evil 2, while he's clearly alive at the beginning of Resident Evil 3. Another would be the whole screwy Zero/RE1 timeline. In the first game, Alpha team went out in search of Bravo team shortly after they lost contact. In Zero, Rebecca and Billy are overlooking the Spencer Estate at dawn, when Alpha team arrived at dusk. A day apparently passed by in Zero, but not in the original Resident Evil. These are examples of plot holes... lol

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RE3 takes place a day before RE3 so yea he gets owned by nemesis BEFORE claire and leon get there. So it makes perfect sense that he is a zombie when they see him xD

Well, Nemesis was just following his programmed instructions. That wasn't to infect her, although if she had ended up dying as a result, that would have been just fine. He did go after Carlos when he got in the way. Remember when Nemesis chases Carlos when you're on your way back to give the vaccine to Jill?

Yea I know....but once your back in the piano room, he ignores you and starts smashing down the door to get to Jill. That's a gameplay thing but it doesn't make sense. He should take out the more immediate threat since she's in a coma about to become a zombie.

I always found the layout of Zero weird. Alpha team doesn't find the railroad tracks or the overturned jeep despite landing right where Bravo did and searching the area. How do they end up in the RE2 labs? And then how do they get back to the middle of the forest? I never thought that made much sense.

I know these are all from RE4, but it obviously has the most plotholes, so might as well get them out of the way.

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Doesn't matter which game as long as there are some. This is a list I have compiled so far.

Cliff Hangers:

•What about Ada? Whom is she working for?

•What does Carlos do now?

•Where the heck did Chris drop Claire off after CVX?

•What happened to Billy after RE0?

•What happened to Rebecca after REmake?

•What happened to Commander Nikolai Ginovaef after RE3?

•What happened to Barry after RE3? (excluding RE5 mercenaries)

•What happened to Sherry Birkin after RE2?

•Are there any samples of the virus left?

•Is Hunk still around?

•Years from 1998 to 2004, and years from 2004 to 2006 and later (might have the years wrong)?

Plot Holes:

•Why was Brad a zombie in Resident Evil 2, while he's clearly alive at the beginning of Resident Evil 3?

•In RE1, Alpha team went out in search of Bravo team shortly after they lost contact. In Zero, Rebecca and Billy are overlooking the Spencer Estate at dawn, when Alpha team arrived at dusk. A day apparently passed by in Zero, but not in the original Resident Evil.

•Why were some Ganado trying to kill Ashley when she was the whole point of Saddler's plan?

•Why do they infect Leon and then try to kill him right after?

•Why do they lead Leon to the only place known to man where a machine that will kill the parasite exists?

•Why is it that after Ashley is captured in the castle for the first time (by the trap), the Ganado only show up to reclaim her when Leon shows up? Do they not know the layout of their own place?

•Why tell Leon and Ashley your plan before even the middle of the game, when all it does is mess it up?

•Considering how long they had Ashley for, why didn't they infect her sooner? Assuming they did, why did they wait so long to perform the "ritual"? What the hell was the ritual, anyway? We saw with Leon that the parasite presents itself pretty damn quickly. He was already losing control, and he was even taking pills to prevent it.

•Why is it that Saddler needed his parasitic soundwave staff to control the Ganado, but Salazar and seemingly Mendez could give orders without them?

•Why was Krauser able to control his mutation to his arm? In addition, assuming it was Las Plagas he was infected with, why did it give him super speed and jumping ability when it didn't do that to anyone else? If it was a virus...well that doesn't make much sense, either. What the hell virus was it?

•Why did they leave papers detailing their plans so Leon could find them right after they come up with them?

•There should be more explanations for the creatures. Why in the world did a few people turn into El Gigante? What was Verdugo and the other one? Obviously some of the things were experiments, but what were they trying to do and why were the results what they were?

•Why did they send Leon, a single agent, in to retrieve or look for Ashley...in a rural area of Spain, no less, when Leon can't even speak Spanish? Before you say they sent in those two Spanish cops...you mean the ones who just sat in the car, offering no help, while Leon went inside the cabin?

•Resident Evil 1, it's impossible to get an ending with both Barry and Rebecca on the helicopter at the end, yet it's been confirmed that they both made it out alive?

•I always found the layout of Zero weird. Alpha team doesn't find the railroad tracks or the overturned jeep despite landing right where Bravo did and searching the area. How do they end up in the RE2 labs? And then how do they get back to the middle of the forest?

One that's always bothered me a lot is Leon and Claire just waltzing into Raccoon City for a number of reasons....

Firstly there's a file in RE2 that says a barricade was set up around the city by the police, and that it was abandoned shortly due to being overrun. Thus there should've been some remnants of that barricade around the city, yet there's nothing of the sort at the beginning of RE2 when you see either Claire or Leon come into town. However in Outbreak there's a cutscene that reveals that there was ANOTHER barricade set up by the Army, and it was clearly there up until the Nuke took out the city because in Resident Evil: Degeneration we see that they still weren't letting people back into the city. So how the **** did Leon and Claire just make it past the barricade the Army set up?

Secondly, how did Leon and Claire not know what was going on in the city beforehand? Various cutscenes throughout the series, specifically the outbreak games and RE4 show that it was national news. I mean think about 9/11, EVERYONE knew about it WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING.. So a disaster on the scale of Raccoon City would pretty much be impossible to be ignorant of, especially in the US. I mean you're telling me that Leon is enough of a goody good to show up in Uniform for the first time he's in town, but he doesn't even call in to work ahead of time to say he'll be there soon? Not for days or even weeks? Hell if they knew he was coming wouldn't they have called him and told him to come sooner so he could help? Not for days or even weeks? There's no reason at all that he shouldn't have known about a city wide crisis. Claire maybe cause she's a dumb college girl, or you could argue that she didn't care and just wanted to find Chris, but she still had no idea what was going on when she arrived.

This is an example of an actual giant plot hole, seriously, it makes no sense at all.

I expect Claire to not have cared or realized the scope of this horror until she arrived. She threw caution to the wind to go after Chris, and does it again and again thereafter, so that's not a shocker.

Leon arriving in uniform is a bit more problematic. Even stipulating that Raccoon was kept quiet, and that it wasn't national news, he arrives at random to this city during the night. In uniform. Usually you show up to work at 9 am.

Ok, so maybe he pulled night shift on his first day. Ok, sure, they had a party ready for him and all, as evidenced by the locker room area. I guess orientation happened earlier? I suppose we assume he had never been to Raccoon before, but maybe he was? Maybe there was traffic? Lots of maybes.

But, again, with no explicit answers, they do fall under plot-hole territory. I can make crap up all day as to what MIGHT have been why, but without a canon reason, it's swiss cheese city.

We've never been shown that it was national news before the missile touched down. In Degeneration, the news is talking about what was currently going on with the city being blown to ****, just like RE3's ending. And in RE4, that's a recap of what happened as a result of Raccoon City.

I think the question would be how wasn't it national news when it was being quarantined?

We've never been shown that it was national news before the missile touched down. In Degeneration, the news is talking about what was currently going on with the city being blown to ****, just like RE3's ending. And in RE4, that's a recap of what happened as a result of Raccoon City.

I think the question would be how wasn't it national news when it was being quarantined?

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Actually there's a cutscene in the first outbreak that literally shows the army closing the city off, and it's being shown as a news report. So yeah.....

RE3 is a prequel to RE2 and a true sequel. The Beginning part of the game takes place before RE2 and Brad is infected. The second part of the game is a true sequel to RE2 and takes place afterwards. I'm not sure about time scales or anything but I thought it was common knowledge RE3 was a prequel/sequel.

I've been dying to rant about the resident evil plot holes for days now.. hahaha, so as soon as I found this thread I knew I had to put in my two cents worth.. *takes a deep breath, wondering where to start*

Now my current problem is with the Resident evil novels by S. D. Perry. Now I know that they're not 100% cannon to the story, and two of them have nothing to do with games at all.. but there's a few huge plot holes I found between resident evil 0 "Zero hour" and resident evil 1 "The Umbrella Conspiracy"..

1)- Wesker is in the STARS office with all of the members of alpha team when Bravo leaves for their sweep the forest, and he's STILL there when they get the SOS from them an hour or so later.. It's takes about 15mins for him to get alpha team ready before they board their chopper to head off ...YET!... How in the F##K is it that in the book Wesker is somehow also at the training facility?.. Can he teleport?...

2)-And on that note, in "Zero hour" it takes Rebbecca hours if not all night to do everything that happens between crashing in the mountains and meeting up with Chris at the Spencer mansion. ..How the hell does that work if it only takes an hour or two for alpha team to get there after bravo teams crash?.. and,

3)-lastly..Staying on the subject of Rebbecca, between the two books her character totally changes, ..In "Zero hour" she's scared at first but her confidences slowly builds as she works her way through the train and the training base, showing the skills that a STARS member would have.. and yet in the next book "The Umbrella Conspiracy" it starts with her hiding in a small room and macing Chris in the face with weed killer.. and when asked where her gun is, she says she dropped it fleeing to the mansion (She was maybe 200ms from it at the end of "zero hour".. not to mention she was also carrying a shotgun* and a fannypack full of ammo).. and she acts like a scared rookie, even though she'd already killed heaps of zombies and monsters only hours earlier..

RAAAAA!!..

I've never played resident evil 0.. due to the fact I never owned a gamecube.. So do these plot holes come up in the game or is it just in the books?..

*She may have tossed the shotgun away during the final fight.. I'm not sure.

You have to remember that when she wrote Umbrella Conspiracy, REmake and Zero didn't exist yet. She wrote it how the game went, and then ended up having to go with the game's story when Zero came out, too.

It's more the fault of the games than Perry's. She was just going with what she had to work with at the time. In the original game, it was only a little while between Bravo crashing and Alpha going there, but in REmake (to compensate for Zero), it's a day or so. I never liked that. It makes no sense why it would take them that long to get out there.

You have to remember that when she wrote Umbrella Conspiracy, REmake and Zero didn't exist yet. She wrote it how the game went, and then ended up having to go with the game's story when Zero came out, too.

It's more the fault of the games than Perry's. She was just going with what she had to work with at the time. In the original game, it was only a little while between Bravo crashing and Alpha going there, but in REmake (to compensate for Zero), it's a day or so. I never liked that. It makes no sense why it would take them that long to get out there.

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Well not really... "Zero hour" (For me) really didn't do anything but break the suspention of disbelief and any chance the story had of drawing me in. Now I understand that she wrote TUC first.. but she must have known when she was writing ZH that it wasn't gonna make the lease bit of sense. she could have least tried make the holes alittle smaller, .. I mean firstly she could have wiped any mention of Wesker at the training labs for starters, that's one large plot hole gone..

I can't think of what she could have done with the train and such, would it have been so hard to have replaced Rebecca with another member of bravo.. Sure she'd get flak for it. but hell, the silent hill movie got away with it, and she'd have a character that she could mold to her liking.. like Enrico?..shorten the scenario a few hours.. have the final fight wound him badly and have him enter the tunnels somehow and BAM that explains how he got there and how he knows about Wesker.. or she could have even just had Billy by himself..

And if for some reason she HAD to use Rebecca at least try and make her personality so that it wasn't so glaringly, blatantly different. If she'd kept alot of her innocents, rookieness..(Maybe not the right word) throughout "Zero hour" it would have made sense for her to find somewhere safe in the Spencer estate and wait for rescue, but instead she's pumping with adrenalin armed to the teeth.. and searching for the rest of bravo team... hahaha..

It kind makes me laugh picturing Rebecca waiting for billy to leave before rushing the short distance to the mansion flailing her arms in the air in some kind of girly breakdown, losing her handgun, shotgun and pack. Before rushing into a room that's quite deep in the mansion locking the door and hiding under the bed with a can of weed killer..

I would argue that it took them so long to find Bravo Team for a few reasons:

1) Wesker probably delayed any search party action deliberately, since he had not planned the outbreak and this was accelerating his plans to use the STARS team to gather combat data.

2) They had to be found in the forest, as it was a lost, downed chopper and they had no idea precisely where it went derelict.

3) The last communication between Bravo Team and Alpha Team may have been such that they didn't realize there was a missing team until the following morning.

I don't mind the time between games so much as I do the time between the "end" of Zero and the supposed "start" of RE1. What did Rebecca do after that ending? That was, for me, a more significant part of why I wanted to play Zero in the first place.

I had hoped for some exploration of the old mansion incident from her perspective before Chris arrives to relieve her.

RE3 is a prequel to RE2 and a true sequel. The Beginning part of the game takes place before RE2 and Brad is infected. The second part of the game is a true sequel to RE2 and takes place afterwards. I'm not sure about time scales or anything but I thought it was common knowledge RE3 was a prequel/sequel.

I'd also like to add I quite like that game.

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Brad got gored through the back of his neck, severing his spinal cord. Like Amber said, nothing would get back up from that. His brain (which is what I assume controls the zombies ) was severed from his body.

I don't mind the time between games so much as I do the time between the "end" of Zero and the supposed "start" of RE1. What did Rebecca do after that ending? That was, for me, a more significant part of why I wanted to play Zero in the first place.

I had hoped for some exploration of the old mansion incident from her perspective before Chris arrives to relieve her.

Glad someone else feels that way. I was so disappointed with Zero because of that. I can't believe they screwed that up. I thought we were gonna see Becca, Richard, Enrico's even Forrest's venture into the Mansion,later in the game. S***, they already had the Mansion backgrounds done. They could've just imported them from Remake. It would've been cool if RE0 ended the way it should have-not a day before Remake, but the same day. An hour would've sufficed.

I don't mind the time between games so much as I do the time between the "end" of Zero and the supposed "start" of RE1. What did Rebecca do after that ending? That was, for me, a more significant part of why I wanted to play Zero in the first place.

I had hoped for some exploration of the old mansion incident from her perspective before Chris arrives to relieve her.

Glad someone else feels that way. I was so disappointed with Zero because of that. I can't believe they screwed that up. I thought we were gonna see Becca, Richard, Enrico's even Forrest's venture into the Mansion,later in the game. S***, they already had the Mansion backgrounds done. They could've just imported them from Remake. It would've been cool if RE0 ended the way it should have-not a day before Remake, but the same day. An hour would've sufficed.

See, yeah, this is where I wish they'd have thought outside the box. The end fight could have easily been the same. The entire game could have been the same, in fact, up to that point. But there should have been an Epilogue where Rebecca was alone, exploring the mansion, and discovering what had become of her compatriots. Maybe she ran into Enrico again, and maybe she saw Forest get pecked to death by crows. Maybe she had a bit of a nervous breakdown and crouched in the resting area with a bed and no ammo, waiting for her inevitable death.

I like downer endings

But no one does that.

I still like Zero, but I will always recognize how it is a marvel of failed potential. But it pales in comparison to what came next, so I tend to forget about it.

But there should have been an Epilogue where Rebecca was alone, exploring the mansion, and discovering what had become of her compatriots. Maybe she ran into Enrico again, and maybe she saw Forest get pecked to death by crows. Maybe she had a bit of a nervous breakdown and crouched in the resting area with a bed and no ammo, waiting for her inevitable death.

Better yet, have the bonus game be all that instead of the pointless Leech Hunter. It would've been much better, if only to save the aggravation one felt when they found 99/100 leeches and ran around in frustration, only to finally realize there was one hidden in the F***** sink!